Inflammation- Food and Lifestyle Ways to Fight.

Inflammation has been on the forefront lately as the culprit of many health problems and diseases.

We need inflammation in our bodies to heal but too much causes loads of problems.

What can you do to help your body function properly?

Food-

• Go organic! It will remove loads of pesticides from your diet. (plus it provides micro-nutrients not found in conventionally grown produce.)
• Stay away from GMO's, they wreck havoc on your system because they are unknown proteins that your body is not sure how to handle and is thus constantly battling.
• Eat only whole grains and mostly nut, coconut and gluten free flours and grains- like buckwheat, oat, quinoa, and brown rice
• Limit red meat and eat only grass fed to lessen artery inflammation
• Limit alcohol. 1 per day women and 2 per day men. and better to have red wine.  1 helps, more swells.
• Step away from the fast food! The fat and additives are terrible for you.  Make it at home instead if you're craving it.
• Eat whole unprocessed foods.  Those lucky charms are definitely not lucky. The chemicals and partitioned foods (like corn starch, corn meal, corn syrup and such) are taxing on your system.  Not to mention loaded with pesticides and GMO's usually.

Lifestyle-

• Clean with all natural products and remove the dangerous chemicals from your home.
• Give your office or school cleaning crew a gift of natural cleaning supplies and recipes.  They'll save money and protect their health and yours.
• Garden and Lawn care organically.  Pesticides and dangerous fertilizers should be far away from your home.  You're there the most!
• Stay away from smoke. Quit and stay far away from second hand smoke.  This is a huge stress on your organs.
• Sleep!
• Relax, do yoga, meditate, go for a walk, sit quietly.  Stress causes inflammation.  Control what you can and drop the rest.
• Exercise.  Pick something you like and do it at least 3 times per week.  
• Control your weight. Those excess pounds stress out your system even more than they stress out your jeans.
• Watch your textiles.  Don't go tearing into that old couch to reupholster it.  Don't get that super cheap carpet.  You'll breathe that stuff in everyday.  Pick carefully.
• Keep it dry! Mold causes your system minor to major problems, depending on your sensitivity.
• Heat electrically not with gas if you can.
• Try to minimize your exposure to car exhaust, industrial exhaust and the like.  This one is hard but whenever possible limit and distance.

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The Inflammation Syndrome, by Jack Challem